[mgkimsal]

Well, you could turn display_errors to 'on' in the php.ini file, but this is generally regarded as a security issue, as the error message will reveal sensitive info.

There are some situations which cause PHP to just die and not log anything, but those are pretty rare.

It's pretty common practice to have display_errors to on for development, and off for production. Are you not doing that already? Or is everyone developing on production systems?